David Colwell Design

David Colwell Design Sustainable Modern Furniture

In a couple of weeks we’re heading to London for Material Matters, part of Shoreditch Design Week.Come and see David Col...
03/09/2026

In a couple of weeks we’re heading to London for Material Matters, part of Shoreditch Design Week.

Come and see David Colwell’s furniture in person and discover the thinking, materials and making behind the designs.

📍 Stand FF8
15–18 September

If you’d like to arrange a time to meet, email [email protected] — or just stop by and say hello.

A Chair 3, photographed in sculptor Mark Richards’ studio by Alex Ramsay.Delighted that both David Colwell and Mark feat...
03/07/2026

A Chair 3, photographed in sculptor Mark Richards’ studio by Alex Ramsay.

Delighted that both David Colwell and Mark feature in this Saturday’s Financial Times House & Home, celebrating the remarkable creative community at Artisan Row in mid Wales, and the live-work spaces shaped by David’s vision for passive solar buildings and community living.

If you’re picking up a copy this weekend, keep an eye out.

Art direction using props from Justine Cook

Gallery seating designed by David Colwell for the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.Created as a significant development...
09/06/2026

Gallery seating designed by David Colwell for the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

Created as a significant development in making public seating more convivial, each person is given their own “patch” a small but important detail that creates a sense of security and ease.

The circular form allows the seats to be used from any direction, giving visitors a choice in how they relate to one another and to the gallery around them. Unlike linear benches, the arrangement naturally supports groups, conversation, pause and contemplation.

The turned timber seats are dished with softened edges, making them remarkably comfortable, practical and easy to maintain. With their four-seat structure, the benches suggest interdependence and a gentle rotary movement — particularly useful within the square gallery spaces of the museum.

A thoughtful piece of public design, created not only for looking, but for gathering, resting and being with art

ROXi.A chair shaped by movement, geometry and comfort.Made from steam-bent ash, ROXi combines a flexible triangulated st...
21/05/2026

ROXi.

A chair shaped by movement, geometry and comfort.

Made from steam-bent ash, ROXi combines a flexible triangulated structure with a gentle rocking motion — creating a chair that is light, strong and responsive to the body.

Winner of the Design Guild Mark 2025.

The High Back Work Chair by David Colwell brings together comfort, movement and structural clarity.Designed for long per...
12/05/2026

The High Back Work Chair by David Colwell brings together comfort, movement and structural clarity.

Designed for long periods of sitting, it has a gently supportive high back, a steam-bent ash frame and a quiet, purposeful form shaped by use rather than excess. Like much of Colwell’s work, its strength comes from geometry — light, efficient and built to last.

A working chair with warmth, intelligence and ease.

The C2 Director’s Chair, designed in 1983, was David Colwell’s second steam-bent ash chair and has remained in continuou...
05/05/2026

The C2 Director’s Chair, designed in 1983, was David Colwell’s second steam-bent ash chair and has remained in continuous production ever since.

Light, comfortable and compactly folding, it moves with ease between domestic, meeting and public spaces. Its compound-curved backrest marked an important advance in steam-bending technique, while the form quietly echoes historic bishop’s chairs and Chinese folding furniture.

Specified over the years for private homes, cultural institutions, Maggie’s cancer care centres and was also recently shown as part of the Interiors Saloon for Tempus Fugit / Modern Classic super yacht.

C2 - a study in practical elegance

Drawn to card and veneer, David Colwell started experimenting with form. Early cones felt unresolved, until a thinner, t...
21/04/2026

Drawn to card and veneer, David Colwell started experimenting with form. Early cones felt unresolved, until a thinner, translucent card transformed the quality of light entirely — softening it.
Influenced by photographic lamps and traditional chicken shed lights, the ellipse form evolved to diffuse light sideways, creating something warmer and more atmospheric.

Even the fixing became part of the story — poppers, left visible, turning function into detail.

The result is a lampshade shaped by iteration, instinct and restraint.

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The reception desk at Scottish Parliament Building draws directly from the landscape it inhabits — its form echoing the ...
07/04/2026

The reception desk at Scottish Parliament Building draws directly from the landscape it inhabits — its form echoing the shifting rock and contours of Scotland itself.

Designed as a point of human reference within the architecture, it moves with the flow of people, shaped by and shaping their arrival. Rooted yet fluid, each element holds its own space while contributing to a continuous, organic whole.

A quiet expression of democracy in motion — where structure meets movement, and the building opens itself to those who enter.

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